hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead -- all around us at home are starting to feel like prison. if we can walk around outside on our street, why can't we walk around at the beach. >> this hour, a sea change as the country begins to open up and here's a chorus of warnings about the danger still lurking. plus --

with growing speculation around the health of north korea's despotic leader. and when he's not programming robots in the future, he's helping feed doctors and nurses working on the front lines. this hour, my interview with emmy award winning actor jeffrey wright. ♪ good to have you with us. so, in some corn rs of the world hardest hit by covid-19, authorities are peeling back restrictions and trying to bring aspects of life back to normal. this week, multiple u.s. states will begin easing the stay-at-home orders that have likely saved a lot of lives even though the national death toll is still shooting up. now, this headline from the "washington post" cutting right to the chase, ready or not,

america is opening back up. in minnesota, some manufacturing businesses have been given the green light. elective surgeries will resume in iowa. and in georgia, restaurants will be allowed to open their doors in the coming hours. now, while the governor of colorado is still urging residents to stay at home as much as possible, he has officially relaxed restrictions. some shops in the state are ready to open. >> reporter: so, this place right here, this is called the barbershop. that's literally the name of this barbershop inside. two hours ago, a cleaning crew came here. you can see the sticker they put on here 4/26/2020. they were inside. they came here and put on outfits that looked like they were going into outer space, but obviously to be careful. they sprayed this place. and this place according to the owners is ready to open tomorrow. and they have a book full of reservations between 9:00 a.m.

and 6:00 p.m. this is ty. what's interesting, they got a call from the governors office that they don't have the authorization to open. they said, you and your owners said the county said you could be open. are you staying open? >> yes, sir, we plan on being open tomorrow at 9:00. >> we're going to keep distance to be safe. are you confident you're going to be safe and your customers are going to be safe? >> 110 the court. we practice safe practices 24/7/365. >> right but tomorrow what are you going to do that's different? >> tomorrow if customers that have masks or would like to wear masks, bring those with them. we'll be offering gloves, hand sanitizer, but we as well will be doing that personally. >> if the county asked you tomorrow, changed their mind, commissioners said you should not be open, would you close? >> absolutely. we have to follow whatever guidelines are put in place and

we have to listen to whatever we're being told. we're just trying to make sure the client and customer safety comes first. >> this is a really nice salon. there's a lot of spacing between chairs, a bar that would not be open, a pool table taken out to create more space. there's no plans to reopen in the state of colorado. in california this week officials in one city may consider temporarily closing beaches. that's after a weekend heat wave sent flocks of people to the sandy shores. paul vercammen has more. >> reporter: the weather cooled off, but more of the head on collision between the need to social distance and peoples' desire to get fresh air and get down to the beach here in sto n southern california. here in ventura county, the beach opened, limited access. maintain your sis tadistance th

authorities said. don't throw any bonfires or parties. most people are cooperating. just down the road a couple of miles, l.a. county beaches still shut down. no access allowed. so, people left l.a. county and went to the beaches in ventura county and orange county. we talked to some of those residents there and they were desperate for a chance to get out of the house. >> as a person who loves to get out, i wanted to get out. we've been stuck inside and honestly how can you stay inside on such a beautiful day. as long as we're abiding by the rules they're giving us, why shouldn't we be able to do what we want? >> our own four walls at home are starting to feel like prison? if we can walk around on the street, why can't we walk around on the beach as long as we're social distancing? >> eric garcetti said we won't let one weekend ruin a month of progress.

while the sunshine is tempting, we're staying home to save lives. there are people who told us on this beach they don't have a job. well, they are exhorting city officials, their state representatives, the governor to give them some timeline in this state. they want to get back to work. reporting from ventura county, california, i'm paul vercammen. back to you. >> thanks for that report. and days after president trump made his disastrous comments about disinfectant, a lot of people still concerned and confused. you will of course remember during his briefing thursday he suggested coronavirus could be treated with an injection of disinfectant into the body. doctors and disinfectant manufacturers say that is just dangerous. the white house coronavirus response coordinator is trying to soften the impact of mr. trump's words. take a listen. >> what should the american people know about disinfectants

and the human body? >> well, first, that was the dialogue he was having between the dhs scientists and himself for information he had received and he was discussing. we have made it clear and when he turned to me i made it clear and he understood that it was not az treatment. and i think that kind of dialogue will happen. >> and here is why state leaders say it's necessary to keep talking and keep debunking the president's comment. >> we had hundreds of calls in our hotline here in maryland about people asking about injecting or ingesting these disinfectants which is, you know, hard to imagine that people thought that that was serious. but what people actually were thinking about this was this something you could do to protect yourself. >> injecting, inguesting,

snorting house hold cleaners is dangerous. it is not advised and can be deadly. in the past two days, there's been a significant increase in calls to the illinois poison center compared to this same time last year associated with exposures to cleaning agents. >> well, people in maryland are rallying around a beloved community member who lost her husband to covid-19. his motorcade went past the home of tammila taylor. her husband, 55-year-old curtis died suddenly after contracting the virus earlier this month. tamara's fans, colleagues, and students say they wanted to find a special way to show their support while also paying tribute to her husband. well, officials in south korea say north korea's leader

is, quote, alive and well. questions about kim jong-un's health have been floating around for days now after he missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday on april 15th, north korea's most important holiday. paula hancocks is in seoul, south korea. south korea says kim jong-un is alive and well. what evidence do they have to support that after u.s. intelligence revealed to cnn last week that kim was gravely ill after surgery? what are you learning? >> well, rosemary, we are hearing a very different story here in south korean than jim sciutto heard in the united states. this is from an adviser from the president moon jae-in. he basically said that kim jong-un is alive and well. that is what he would say on the record at this point, saying he believed to be on the coast of north korea. now, there have been a lot of

conflicting reports when it comes to kim jong-un's health. what we do know is that he did miss a key appearance. his absence at the birth date of his grandfather and the founder of north korea kim ill sung on april 15th did raise eyebrows and made people questions about what happened. moon jae-in talking to blue house senior cabinet members and he didn't actually broach the subject of kim jong-un's health. what he said was he was looking forward to working with kim jong-un, pushing forward to a peace economy. when it comes to the south korean government, they believe they still have a partner in kim jong-un to be able to negotiate with. i also spoke earlier to ted jung ho, a north korean defector, a former high elite within the regime and now a south korean lawmaker. and he did question where

exactly all these conflicting reports have come from. >> the only people who can confirm his real condition might be kim jong-un's wife or his sister or his close, you know, the aides. those rumors of where he is now, whether he has any surgery, i don't think, you know, that is really based on the facts. >> he did also go on to say it is highly sensitive to talk about the leader's health within north korea and the fact that very few people would even know where he is let alone what kind of condition he is in and the fact that he was disconnected even for much of the elite and the leadership within north korea itself. so, he did though say that something has happened. it does appear as though there is some health implications.

the fact if he was unable to stand or walk properly on the day of april 15th,that potentially that is why he decided to be absent. >> and paula, what role, if any, might the coronavirus pandemic have played in kim's absence from the april 15th birthday celebrations of his late grandfather, a very significant day in north korea? >> well, i did ask about this. i asked other experts and observers about this as well. most down play the role of novel coronavirus. they don't believe that that has had any impact on what we are seeing at this point. but of course they all caution we simply don't know for sure. he was saying that as the leader, kim jong-un would not be mixing with the vast majority of the leadership, let alone with regular north koreans. but he also did say that there is no possibility that north korea does not have coronavirus

cases pointing at the smuggling that goes on between the borders of china and north korea. those also going to many of the markets within the country. so, he does believe that the virus would have spread fairly quickly within the country itself. but he does not believe that that would have had any impact on kim jong-un. >> paula hancocks following all these developments and this story and all possible speculation. we'll talk again soon. we'll take a short break. still to come, the british prime minister is back on the job after recovering from the coronavirus. we will look at the growing pressure on boris johnson to determine what's next in tackling the pandemic. we're back with that in just a moment. memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference.

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mont marks his first day back after battling a debilitating case of coronavirus. it will be a very busy first day. the government is working on rolling out more testing and the

opposition labor party is putting pressure on downing street to reveal an exit plan for the lockdown. let's turn to isa soares. she joins us live from london. what are all the tough decisions facing prime minister boris johnson as he prepares for his first day back after recovering from covid-19 and are we lookly to hear from him? >> good morning, rosy. expectation, everyone waiting to see whether it will be boris johnson leading today's meeting at 5:00 or so, the update on covid-19. we know that he is raring to go. we know that he's in charge. we know he's at downing street. like you said, it will be a very busy morning for him. i would imagine his inbox would be rather full. one early morning meeting on covid-19, will he meet with senior ministers together with scientists to get an update on the number and where we are fighting covid-19.

and the numbers from yesterday, 413 people died in hospitals, that's just hospitals. the number is considerably lower for the month of april, but we need to be wary because these numbers tend to change during the week. and worth bearing in mind the uk has passed the 20,000 mark, a grim milestone that no one wants to achieve in terms of numbers of deaths. the decision he'll have to make as he faces pressures from really all angles, some conservative donors want the prime minister to ease or lift the lockdown restrictions. they want to see the economy really kick started again. they fear this is having a huge impact on the economy. one saying there's a risk that the medicine in this case, the lockdown, causes more harm than the actual cure. then he has pressures as you

pointed out as well from the leader of the opposition who does not want to see measures lifted. that's important here. he wants to see an exit lockdown strategy from the government which we have not heard from yet. then you have pressures really from people who are incredibly restless. they've been under lockdown for five weeks and they've seen the numbers reduced. we heard from the nhs medical director yesterday who said the lockdown is working. we're seeing the number of hospitalizations lower, particularly in london, but this is not the time to be lifting lockdown restrictions. in fact he's worried we've seen an uptick in the people getting in cars and out and about. a huge decision, i do wonder, rosy, whether his brush with death, whether that will have an impact of how and when he leads. >> i do wonder whether that would color his approach going forward. but talk to us about whether

boris johnson would be open to revealing some form of exit plan at this juncture or whether he would view this as too early. >> well, what we have heard from several ministers within his own party in the last few days is that the uk has to remain the course. it is imperative to stay at home. having said that, dominic raab yesterday speaking on national television here said that there would be a case for a new normal of opening schools, of sports events but with social distancing, something that we have seen of course in spain and in germany as well. but what we have heard time and time again, rosy, is the five marks the government has to hit in order to even consider lifting restrictions. i want to talk you through them. one is the nhs's ability to

actually cope. so, really capacity. we understand that has -- has been met. the numbers of hospitalizations are lowered. then the rate of that as well. if we look at the numbers in the last 24 hours, that perhaps is pointing that way. the rate of infection, used to be 1-3. now it's expected to be much, much lower. then we have the testing capacity and ppe and the risk of second infection. of the last two, the testing capacity, that is the huge headache for the government. now, the head of the health secretary matt hancock's promise at the beginning of the month capacity to test 100,000 a day, rosy. i can tell you on saturday only 28,000 tests had been complied. we've got four days the until the end of the month. it doesn't look like they will get to that point. and one expert of imnolg telling cnn the last few minutes that perhaps we're get to the 100,000 perhaps another two or three weeks although the government seems adamant.

rosy. >> it is a delicate balancing act. we see this in all countries including here in the united states, when to open up, when is it wise, and worry about that bounce back. thank you so much, isa soares joining us from london. many thanks. the coronavirus is taking a heavy toll on minority communities and nowhere is that more evident than on the faces of families that lost a loved one. phil black has more. >> a moment of painful loneliness for one man. he's a grieving son and brother made to wait in a place that can offer no consolation for his loss, a car park, under a mosque in north london now being used to deal with the unequal consequences of covid-19. it's become a workshop, a busy production line, rapidly building coffins, trying to keep up with the pandemic's ruthless

demand. this is the confronting reality, what it really means when doctors say people of color are disproportionately being impacted by the virus. so many people in this community are dying. there aren't enough coffins for them. this is what the grieving unanimous has been waiting for, to be begin saying good-bye. the mosque is closed, so he has to pray here in the car park for his mother, inside that casket, and his brother who lies in another just meters away. the 70-year-old woman and her 32-year-old son died a few days apart. both had contracted covid-19. across london, in a muslim burial ground, we see more improvisation for dealing with death on an extraordinary scale. the backlog for burials is now

so long muslim scholars were consulted to approve these trenches, each one excavated to hold 20 bodies. just days later, the first is already full. staff of britain's national health service noticed the terrible number of black and ethnic minority people partly because they were missing so many of their own, like thomas harvey who worked as a hospital carer for many years. >> it's really hard not having my dad around. it hurts every single day. >> the usually strong healthy father of 7 was isolating at home with covid-19 symptom when is he collapsed in the bathroom. his family and police broke through the door. paramedics worked to save him. his daughter says she'll never forget the words she heard soon after. >> he come upstairs and was like the virus has got him. we can't do anything else.

and that was just bad. >> who said that to you? >> i'm sorry. >> it's all right. >> one of the paramedics. >> much of the evidence is anecdotal. but in the united kingdom as in the u.s., it appears undeniable. covid-19 is devastating communities of color while reasons of research and debate a greater need looms clear, protecting vulnerable people who are experiencing a desperately unfair burden of pain and loss. phil black, cnn, london. >> these are difficult stories to tell. we're going to take a short break. here still to come on cnn newsroom, you may have seen jeffrey wright in "west world" or "the hunger games."

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well, several states in america are beginning to reopen from their shutdowns. they do it while weighing the risks of public health against the damage being done to the economy. and we are looking at both sides of that complex equation, and we begin with public health. doctors in new york have been on the front lines of the pandemic for weeks now, and one doctor who recovered from the virus is now part of a hospital rapid response team. he gave cnn a first hand look at

the daily channels of treating patients during this crisis. >> i'm an anesthesiologist at mount sinai. i recover frd coronavirus about four or five weeks ago and i've been working at mount sinai on the front lines treating patients and trying to support our staff. i'm donating plasma which is hopefully rich in antibodies. give this plasma to someone who is acutely infected with the coronavirus, the antibodies that are in the plasma start attacking the virus while the person themselves start mounting their own antibody response. so, i'm headed now to assist with an intubation. that means putting a breathing tube in someone who's getting sicker and sicker and having difficulty breathing on their own. actually bringing in one of our ventilators so we can get prepared and everything set up before we do the procedure.

we're with the rest of the rapid response team, obviously trying to assess the situation as quickly as possible and doing what we can to help people. so i'm ready to do another intubation. this is the fifth of the day. it's 2:30 in the afternoon. it's really kind of crazy how sick this virus makes people. and, you know, it's -- because there's no visitors here, we end up taking the role of not just people as doctors but also the representatives speaking to their families trying to connect loved ones with each other, holding the phone, trying to speak between mother and son and other family members, might be their last words to each other. when we're done with this crisis, when we've won, i have a lot of hope and think this is going to make us come out a lot stronger. the only people that are going to benefit from that are our

future patients. >> extraordinary. and the united states is quickly approaching 1 million cases and close to 55,000 coronavirus deaths. several states are set to start easing stay-at-home restrictions this week. going against recommendations in an attempt to reboot their economies. now, for five weeks in a row, millions of workers applied for unemployment benefits. on sunday, the u.s. treasury secretary predicted that the economy will bounce back in mid- to late-summer. that's despite one of president trump's economic advisers painting a very different picture. take a listen. >> this is the biggest negative shock that our economy i think has ever seen. we're going to be looking at unemployment rate that approaches rates that we saw during the great depression. during the great recession, a financial crisis around 2008,that we lost 8.7 million jobs in the whole thing. right now we're losing that many

jobs every ten days. the next couple of months are going to look terrible. you're going to see numbers as bad as anything we've ever seen. i think the unemployment rate is going to jump to a level of 16% or higher in the next jobs report. >> very sobering there, and it could be another roller coaster week for markets and commodities. john defterios joins me now to talk more about all this. great to see you, john. so, interesting. i want to get your take on when we might bounce back economically from this pandemic because as we just heard some suggest that could happen mid- to late-summer. seems very optimistic. others say it will take significantly longer as we just heard. and what role does oil play in all this? >> well, you know, we heard the unemployment number, 26 million people already, and i've seen federal reserve, central bank survey, that could double by the end of june. so, it's extraordinary, rosemary. so, it's hard to see how growth

is going to recover so fast. v shape is the wish of the president to go down sharply, up sharply. a u shape is more gradual. it looks more like a w where you go down, back up, and back down again because of the boomerang of the virus. that's the biggest concern, and that's what's weighing on the oil markets as we speak. does demand stay as low as today or does it bounce back and when? the demand in factories is all down sharply by about 30%. if you take a look at the prices today, rosemary, another sharp loss after black monday we saw a week ago when we went negative $37. this is about the oversupply and where to put the extra oil right now. the big concerns in the united states about u.s. inventories. we have the opec cuts coming into place by the end of the week. this is the problem, supply and demand. they're going to cut nearly 10

million barrels a day. the demand is down nearly 30 million barrels a day. and the best case scenario, it could stay down 10 to 15% the third quarter but it depends on the confidence coming back into business and whether you had a double blow and get the virus back which holds back a real true recovery or not. >> yeah, that is the concern. so, how is the oil trade impacting stock markets? >> well, oil is all about economic demand, right, as i was explaining. in the stock markets today again we see the central banks willing to go to fight to keep liquidity in the market and to buy government bonds to do the same thing. today was the bank of japan doing so saying it will do so for an unlimited time. that's a green light for investors to come back into the market, rosemary. if you take a look at the asia market performance, tokyo is the biggest gainer. but it builds in the shanghai

and hong kong. london is up sharply, germany up sharply, france with solid gains as well. we're going to hear from the u.s. central bank earlier this week, also the european central bank which is supposed to give a similar signal as the bank of japan right now. it's all this liquidity being chased into the market to prop up the economy and hopefully the recovery kicks in. but the oil market is telling us something extremely different right now and it's a commodity and it's all based on supply and demand, not the central bank's intervening. >> i always learn something from chatting with you. john defterios, joining us live from abu dhabi. it has been one month since the president signed a record $2 trillion relief package to help struggling americans. since then at least 88 million people have received the funds along with a letter from the president. it includes a message that reads, and i'm quoting here, we are fully committed to ensuring

that you and your family have the support you need to get through this time. at least one lawmaker called the letter inappropriate, democratic representative charlie crist said it sounded like the president was campaigning. so, over the last few minutes, we have looked at how difficult it is for health care workers on the front lines. and how the coronavirus pandemic has thrown many peoples' careers and livelihoods into question. new york is bearing the brunt of the impact. the city reports more than 150,000 cases of the virus with nearly 40,000 patients hospitalized. one hollywood star who calls new york home decided to help out his community and support local hospital staff and businesses struggling right now. and joining me now from new york, actor jeffrey wright. you probably know him best from "west world" and "the hunger games: catching fire."

wonderful to have you with us. >> thanks for having me, rosemary. >> of course you live in brooklyn, and you've been trying to help two local restaurants that have been making meals for health care workers who were looking after covid-19 patients. and the reaction has been incredible. how did you first find out about the work these restaurants were doing, and why did you decide that you needed to help? >> well, we started together. one restaurant, a placed called brooklyn moon, owned by a good friend of mine named michael thompson has been in the neighborhood for 25 years. i've lived here 20 years and we've been friends ever since. michael is not delivery-oriented. he is a social space. his space was the center for the spoken word scene at one point. erica bahdu performered her first show in new york city at his space. he needed to reorient his business toward delivery mode as

we were going into lockdown. so, he did. i suggested that i would help boost his efforts on social media, and i did. called him back the day after the lockdown. i said how did you do today, mike? he said bro, i got five orders, which is not good. so, we were thinking about other ways in we could sustain his business as we try to endure this thing, thought about the hospital but assumed that they had a cafeteria that was serving their needs. brooklyn hospital was literally just outside my window here as i'm in the fort green section of brooklyn. but i've heard that another friend named veto had asked customers to call in to order pizzas on behalf of brooklyn hospital staff. he as well is here in fort green. when i heard that, i reached out to veto and asked if he would

connect me to a hospital represent and he did. he's been extraordinary. veto and i went down to meet with lenny. and he told us that in fact the hospital could use more. they needed as much as 200 meals per day because he had staff who were working 15 and 16 hours, many of them not going home and living in hotels near the hospital. so, they were in need of the extra support. so, we agreed on that day that we would, that the two restaurants, brooklyn moon would supply the meals to brooklyn hospital and i would try to boost and amplify their efforts via social media and fund raise through a gofundme page. that's what we did. on march 27th werks began. what happened from there is we decided to include other restaurants in the neighborhood.

they reached out to other friend of theirs, i reached out to other friends of mine, other places eye patronize and whose food i like. it began to evolve from there. and then the brooklyn borough president took an interest in what we were doing. eric adams asked us to try to expand it bore roe wide. >> you want to actually raise a million, don't you? how much have you raised so far? >> we've raised through the gofundme page i believe about 260 some odd dollars last time i checked. we also raised another 180,000 or so from direct donations to our 501 c 3 which was brooklyn new york for life inc.

and what's been exciting about it is that the donations have been equally split between small donors and big dollar donors. so, it's been fairly democratic in that regard which is wonderful to see that the entire community has really come together to support this effort because really it's done on all of our behalf. we -- daniel craig was an early supporter of this and he in fact suggested to me that i put together a video to support that effort. and it was based on the nhs video, the thank you video that was made that he took part in. so, we did that as well to try not only to raise additional funds but to try to put out a message of solidarity and a message of love for community and a message of optimism in these strange and challenging times. so, there's been wonderful support all around. >> it is. it's wonderful to hear that

james bond has stepped up. >> that's my brother. that's my brother. come on, man, we stick together. in fact, he lives here in brooklyn. he lives just a few neighborhoods away. >> that's brilliant. how surprised were you that the neighborhood and beyond responded to positively to all this? so many people have their own problems as well because we're all sort of in this together. >> sure, it's been really gratifying. and i think that even if someone has contributed to us and they happen to be in phoenix or the midwest of america, i think what we're all looking for are ways not to feel helpless, not to feel so frustrated. >> jeffrey wright, thank you so much for talking with us and for all your incredible work for all these health care workers and helping these restaurants fe same time. >> thanks so much for having me. >> and we'll take a short break

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good to have you back. well, now to turkey where there's been a noticeable decline in daily deaths. the turkish health ministry says 99 patients died from covid-19 in the past day. that is the first time since mid-april the daily deaths have dropped below 100 and it's in line with a week long decrease in fatalities. arwa damon joins us now from istanbul. good to see you arwa. how is the situation in turkey and elsewhere across the middle east? >> rosemary, i think it's pretty safe to say that everyone here is holding their breath and

hoping that this current decrease in numbers that we're seeing, whether it's decrease in number of deaths or decrease in number of people who are testing positive is going to continue along this current trend. turkey took something of a gamble when it came to its covid-19 preventive measures, only really implementing something of a partial lockdown. during the week if you're above the age of 20 or under the age of 65 you can go out provided of course you take the preventive measures into consideration, social distancing, wearing a face mask, and people are generally encouraged to stay home n. some countries in the middle east, we are beginning to see a slight easing of restrictions. turkey itself not there yet though at this stage but in lebanon for example, they are easing restrictions. they are beginning to allow additional businesses to open up. and in saudi arabia, they have said that they will be lifting

the full curfew to allow people to go out during what would have been regular business hours except, rosemary, for in the holy city of mecca. of course all of these restrictions though mean that this ramadan, which is the holiest month for muslims where they fast from sunrise to sun set is very, very different. gone are the large family dinners. gone are the gathers at the mosques. but by and large leaders across the region are still urging caution, even those that are lifting restrictions at this stage because like elsewhere in the world no one exactly knows where this virus is going to be going next. >> most definitely the question we're all asking. arwa damon joining us from istanbul. many thanks. well, you've probably never seen this before. check out the helmet this police officer is wearing in dubai. it can scan up to 200 people a minute. that's more than 3 a second, to

see if they have a fever. they are hitting the streets as the uae slowly reopens itself for business. with some malls and restaurants taking customers again albeit with tight restrictions around social distancing. incredible there. half a century after breaking up, the beatles managed to bring together over 70,000 people virtually. we'll show you how they did it back in a moment.

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♪ all you need is love ♪ all you need is love ♪ love ♪ love is all you need >> that's all you need. more than 70,000 people went online yesterday to stream the beatles movie "yellow submarine." fans were encouraged to dress up for the sing along watch party. paul mccartney and ringo star made a surprise appearance. i'm rosemary church and i'll be back in just a few minutes with another hour of news. do join us.

hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, you're watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead. open for business. despite warnings from health officials, more u.s. states start to loosen restrictions. we will have the latest for you on that. summer is upon us and millions of kids may have to stay inside. how to protect the mental health of our children. also ahead, north korea isn't being very open about kim jong-un's absence but